10 Reasons Why Your Bone On Bone Knee Pain Isn't From Your Cartilage, It's From Knee Bone Stress

1. You've been treating the wrong part of your knee

Almost everything you bought was aimed at your cartilage, the smooth layer on the ends of the bones in your knee. But healthy cartilage has no nerves. It can't feel pain.That's why about half of people whose X-rays show knee arthritis have no knee pain at all, and some people with a mild X-ray can barely get out of a chair.

The pain comes from the bone right under the cartilage, on the inside of the knee. In one MRI study, about 3 in 4 painful arthritic knees had damaged spots in that bone, against about 3 in 10 knees that didn't hurt. When the spots shrank, the pain often eased. An X-ray only shows how far apart your bones are, so everybody looks at the gap and tells you you're bone on bone. It's called Knee Bone Stress: the bone right under your worn cartilage takes every step, gets tiny cracks it can't mend, and inflammation and pressure build up inside it. That bone is full of nerves, so it aches day and night, and an X-ray can't show it.

2. Every step cracks the bone under your cartilage, and it can't mend fast enough

When your cartilage wears thin, every step lands harder on the bone underneath. Going down stairs puts about 3 times your body weight through your knee, and that bone gets tiny cracks. That's why you stand at the top of the basement stairs with one hand on the railing, testing the knee before you put your weight on it.

Your bone mends itself all the time. But the cells that do it need cellular energy, and they make it from NAD+, a molecule every cell in your body uses to make cellular energy. Your body makes less and less of it as you get older. So the tiny cracks add up faster than they get mended.

3. Inflammation gets into the bone through tiny channels

In a worn knee, tiny channels open up from the bone into the cartilage. Inflammation from the joint gets into the bone through them.

So the damaged spots in the bone stay sore, day and night. That's why the ache sits deep inside the knee, not on the skin where a cooling gel works.

4. Pressure builds inside the bone, and that's the 3 AM ache

Blood flows into the damaged spots but doesn't drain back out the way it should, so pressure builds up inside the bone. Studies going back to the 1970s measured it.

That's why it aches worst when you lie down at night. It's the deep ache inside your knee at 3 AM that no pillow fixes, and it's why so many people end up sleeping in the recliner. Then morning comes, and you park at the far end of the lot so nobody watches you climb out of the truck one leg at a time.

5. Most knee creams can't touch Knee Bone Stress

Most knee creams are menthol. They cool your skin for twenty minutes and that's all. Most magnesium creams and sprays are magnesium alone. Almost none of them have niacinamide.

Niacinamide, plain vitamin B3, is what your body uses to make NAD+. And magnesium is what turns NAD+ into cellular energy. One without the other doesn't get it done. That's why the magnesium pills and sprays did nothing for your knee. Buy the wrong cream and you'll think this doesn't work, and you'll be right back to one supplement after another.

Before you buy any knee cream, look for all five: magnesium and niacinamide together in the same formula, boswellia and arnica for the inflammation, something for blood flow, rubbed on instead of swallowed, and third-party tested in the USA. Magnesium Aid™ is the only rub we know of that puts magnesium and niacinamide together.

6. Two years of "joint support", almost $1,900, and nothing touched the bone

Pull the receipts out of the junk drawer and add them up at the kitchen table. Glucosamine, chondroitin and MSM at $32 a jar, and the knee never feels any different. Turmeric with black pepper, "the natural ibuprofen," at $27 a jar, with heartburn and maybe a day or two of help. Collagen peptides in your coffee at $42 a tub. Fish oil at $21, and fish burps all afternoon. Magnesium pills at $16, and in the bathroom twice a day. The blue cooling gel at $11 each, cold for about 20 minutes, then the ache comes right back. The pharmacy arthritis gel that used to need a prescription at $17. It helps for a couple of hours. Then it doesn't. A copper compression sleeve at $34 that leaves a red line around your leg. Magnesium oil spray at $24, and it stings. Cortisone shots at a $180 copay each. Gel shots at $450 after insurance, for about two months of relief. Two years of that adds up to almost $1,900. And the knee hurts more than when you started, not less.

They all kind of do something for a week or two. Something you can almost talk yourself into. Then your knee settles right back where it was. Everything you've tried either went after your cartilage, stopped at your skin, or did one small job for a few hours.

Glucosamine, chondroitin and collagen are trying to rebuild cartilage by swallowing it. Cartilage has no blood supply, so very little of anything you swallow reaches it, and it was never where the pain was. Turmeric and fish oil calm a little inflammation everywhere in your body. Swallowed, very little ends up in the bone under one knee, and neither one helps that bone mend. Magnesium pills upset your stomach long before you've taken enough to matter, and magnesium turns NAD+ into cellular energy, so without NAD+ it has nothing to turn. The magnesium spray is magnesium alone. Cooling gels and copper sleeves stop at the skin. The pharmacy arthritis gel does reach the tissues of the knee and calms the joint for a few hours, but it does nothing for the cracks or the pressure in the bone.

Cortisone shots quiet the pain for a few weeks. In a 2-year study, people who got repeated knee shots lost cartilage about twice as fast as people who got saltwater shots, with no extra pain relief, and each shot tends to wear off sooner than the last. Gel shots add cushion between the bones, but the bone underneath is just as cracked. A knee replacement means tens of thousands of dollars, months of recovery learning to walk again with a walker in your own living room, and about 1 in 5 people still have long-term pain afterward. That number should be in the brochure they hand you. It isn't.

Even surgeons know where the pain is. Some now inject bone filler straight into these damaged spots under the cartilage, without touching the cartilage at all. The pain is in the bone. So why has nobody told you? It sits in radiology and rheumatology journals a surgeon doesn't read, and nobody can patent magnesium or vitamin B3, so no sales rep will ever bring it up. None of these fixes help the bone under your cartilage mend its cracks, calm the inflammation getting into it and ease the pressure building inside it, all at the same time.

7. It goes on right where your knee hurts

Doctors already recommend a rub-on gel for knee arthritis, because what you rub on reaches the tissues of the knee. It never goes near your stomach.

Magnesium Aid™ works the same way. Rub a thin layer all the way around your knee, front, sides and back, with extra along the inside edge, where the bone under the cartilage takes the most. Do it before bed, and again before you get out of bed in the morning. It takes under a minute and skips your stomach, so there's no upset stomach, and aloe vera helps it soak in.

8. Mend, Protect and Relieve, in one jar

Mend the tiny cracks in the bone under your cartilage: about half to 60 percent of the magnesium in your body is stored in your bones. Most people think magnesium is for leg cramps. Niacinamide, plain vitamin B3, is what your body makes NAD+ from, and magnesium turns NAD+ into cellular energy. Together they give the bone cells the cellular energy to mend, overnight while you sleep. In a 1996 study, people with joint arthritis who took niacinamide for 12 weeks moved their joints more freely and needed fewer pain pills than people on a sugar pill.

Protect: calm the inflammation getting into the bone. Boswellia, a tree resin used for sore joints in India for thousands of years, calms one of the main sources of joint inflammation, and a boswellia extract eased knee arthritis pain in a 90-day study. Arnica, a flower extract, eases swelling and soreness: an arnica gel worked as well as an ibuprofen gel in 204 people with hand arthritis. B6 calms a second source of inflammation. Vitamin E protects the bone cells from the damage inflammation causes.

Relieve the pressure building inside the bone: magnesium helps the walls of small blood vessels relax, so blood flows through instead of backing up. Arnica and camphor support blood flow around the knee, and arnica helps the small drainage vessels move extra fluid out. Menthol, camphor and peppermint oil cool your knee within minutes. That's the part you feel first, but it isn't the fix. Miss any one of the three and the ache comes back.

You didn't need more cartilage from a pill. You needed to help the bone under your cartilage mend its cracks, calm the inflammation getting into it and ease the pressure building inside it. Third-party tested in the USA, in a little glass jar. Every box checked. As the cracks mend and the pressure eases, the bone under your cartilage stops aching every time it takes your weight. Same X-ray. A bone that's calmer underneath it.

9. 115,000+ people stopped blaming their cartilage

People who use it every night and every morning tell us the same things. They walk down the stairs without touching the railing. They kneel on the living room floor to fix an outlet and get back up without grabbing anything. They sleep in their own bed again instead of the recliner. They mow the whole yard without sitting on the porch steps halfway, and they get up out of the recliner without pushing off with both arms. No shot. No dread at the top of the stairs.

In a survey of 1,247 Magnesium Aid™ customers ages 42–71, 81% said their first steps in the morning were easier within 14 days. 73% said the stairs were easier within 5 weeks. 68% reduced their use of pain pills. 76% said they could kneel or get down on the floor again by week 8. The refund rate is 0.4%.

Most people quit too early. Give it at least 30 applications before you judge it, then a couple of months. In the first 15 minutes, the cooling eases the ache. In week 1, the deep ache in bed eases a little, and your knee loosens up faster in the morning. At about 30 applications (weeks 2 to 4), the ache stops waking you as often, and the first steps and the stairs hurt less. In weeks 5 to 8, you get up out of a chair without pushing off with both arms, and you take the stairs one foot after the other, still holding the railing. In months 3 to 6 come the stairs without the railing, and real walks. A thin layer before bed and before you get up. That's the whole routine.

10. If it's not Knee Bone Stress, you lose nothing

90-day money-back guarantee. Use it on your worst nights. Take the basement stairs. Get down on the floor and back up.

If your knee isn't better, send the jar back for a full refund. No questions. The fact that a small company will give your money back and the surgeon's office won't tells you something.

Knee Bone Stress is the cracked, inflamed, pressured bone under your worn cartilage, and nothing you swallowed was ever aimed at it. Nobody should spend two years and $1,900 on jars and shots that were aimed at the wrong part of the knee.